2020 QM ConnectLX

The Covid 19 pandemic required that most colleges move to virtual instruction. What started out as a necessity, is now being seen as a tremendous opportunity which has allowed faculty to rethink how they teach their courses both seated and online.

The online students are here! This session will be focused on how to provide high quality student services. Historically offering mainly face-to-face programs, our school has been ramping up our online student services in anticipation of a big transition as we launch our first online Masters degree in fall 2020. The rapid shift to remote education due to COVID-19 forced us to launch these efforts in the spring of 2020.

Are you fully utilizing QM reporting tools? Let's discuss how to use standard and customizable QM reporting tools to keep track of professional development, course reviews, and QM role holders to support and evaluate your implementation efforts.

In fall of 2019 our Director of Curriculum and Instruction attended a statewide training with other curriculum directors across the state of Arkansas. In this session, the curriculum directors across the state were asked, "What is your Instructional Model?" It was at that time our Director of Curriculum and Instruction reached out to our C&I team and Design and Development team and asked, "What is our Instructional Model?" We didn't have a clear answer. We had practices, beliefs, procedures, and QM/NSQ standards.

This presentation will highlight the collaboration of faculty and instructional designers in a one course/three modality model for course builds at a private not for profit University, where the course builds integrate Quality Matters standards.

Our hope is that, by the end of the session, participants will be able to reflect on the effect an integrated designed course blueprint has on their ability to improve teaching and significant student learning by:

Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how you can apply seven specific usability hacks to determine quickly whether any online course meets General Standard 8: Accessibility & Usability—especially if you're not an accessibility expert.

Our hope is that, by the end of the session, participants will be able to reflect on the effect an integrated designed course blueprint has on their ability to improve teaching and significant student learning by:

Our hope is that, by the end of the session, participants will be able to reflect on the effect an integrated designed course blueprint has on their ability to improve teaching and significant student learning by:

Analyzing your current course design practice.

Evaluating the model to gain a broader perspective of course design.

Developing faculty "buy-in" to improve your campus process through the Cycle of Course Design.

Ever seen movies like "13 going on 30" Or "Freaky Friday" where two very different people switch bodies for a time? Join us for an out of body experience role play that helps you get in the mindset of your students and explore an adversarial thought approach to instructional design.